Johannsen v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.

On April 16, 1938, plaintiff filed a petition which named as defendants the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. and Thomas Lorenzen. It asserted that, on April 30, 1936, the defendant corporation was engaged in business at Denison, Iowa, and there maintained a bulk plant; that plaintiff was employed by the Denison Auto Company, whose premises were adjacent to those of defendant corporation; that defendant Lorenzen was in charge of defendant’s bulk plant; that on said date, defendant was pumping gasoline from a tank car into its bulk plant, left the pumps running without any employee in attendance,…